DRUMMOND, Alexander. Travels through different cities of Germany, Italy, Greece, and several parts of Asia, as far as the banks of the Euphrates in a series of letters , edited by Tobias Smollett. London: by W. Strahan for the author, 1754. 2° (346 x 225mm). Folding engraved frontispiece and 30 plates only, some folding. With woodcut of Greek alphabet in letterpress. (Lacking 4 plates, browning to plates and text, marginal staining and soiling to quire K and elsewhere, S1 with hole at inner margin, plate of Monte Piovizano torn with slight loss at left hand margin and also soiled at same margin, folding map of Syria with 80mm. tear from margin into engraved area.) Modern calf with old lettering-piece relaid. FIRST EDITION. This work consists of 13 letters, written by Drummond to his brother between 1744-50 while travelling and later as a commercial resident of Cyprus and Asia Minor. Horace Walpole called it "a very foolish, vulgar book" and its author "an Aleppo-factor", deriding the first letter, which concerns Italy, for its unconvincing account of a "conversazione" at Horace Mann's. Ingamells p. 314; Blackmer 497 "important work"; Pine-Coffin 744. BREVAL, John Durant. Remarks on several parts of Europe, relating chiefly to their antiquities and history. Collected upon the spot in several tours since the year 1723 . London: for H. Lintot, 1738. 2 volumes in one forming part two of the work only, 2° (371 x 229mm). 41 engraved plates, 18 folding (2G1 r with soil lines, some offsetting and occasional thumb-soiling, but generally a clean, fresh copy.) Contemporary speckled calf, gilt panelled spine (restored), red speckled edges. Provenance : Rolle (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. The first part was published in 1726. Volume I of the second part is on Sicily, Naples, Rome, and central and north Italy, in 1725. Breval's Remarks "contain the most complete account of Italy to appear in English since Addison and the first to be illustrated (the plates apparently of his own drawing)," states Ingamells. "Breval particularly addressed the fine arts and he was one of the first Englishmen to take an interest in Renaissance painting." Ingamells p. 123; Pine-Coffin 725. (2)
DRUMMOND, Alexander. Travels through different cities of Germany, Italy, Greece, and several parts of Asia, as far as the banks of the Euphrates in a series of letters , edited by Tobias Smollett. London: by W. Strahan for the author, 1754. 2° (346 x 225mm). Folding engraved frontispiece and 30 plates only, some folding. With woodcut of Greek alphabet in letterpress. (Lacking 4 plates, browning to plates and text, marginal staining and soiling to quire K and elsewhere, S1 with hole at inner margin, plate of Monte Piovizano torn with slight loss at left hand margin and also soiled at same margin, folding map of Syria with 80mm. tear from margin into engraved area.) Modern calf with old lettering-piece relaid. FIRST EDITION. This work consists of 13 letters, written by Drummond to his brother between 1744-50 while travelling and later as a commercial resident of Cyprus and Asia Minor. Horace Walpole called it "a very foolish, vulgar book" and its author "an Aleppo-factor", deriding the first letter, which concerns Italy, for its unconvincing account of a "conversazione" at Horace Mann's. Ingamells p. 314; Blackmer 497 "important work"; Pine-Coffin 744. BREVAL, John Durant. Remarks on several parts of Europe, relating chiefly to their antiquities and history. Collected upon the spot in several tours since the year 1723 . London: for H. Lintot, 1738. 2 volumes in one forming part two of the work only, 2° (371 x 229mm). 41 engraved plates, 18 folding (2G1 r with soil lines, some offsetting and occasional thumb-soiling, but generally a clean, fresh copy.) Contemporary speckled calf, gilt panelled spine (restored), red speckled edges. Provenance : Rolle (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. The first part was published in 1726. Volume I of the second part is on Sicily, Naples, Rome, and central and north Italy, in 1725. Breval's Remarks "contain the most complete account of Italy to appear in English since Addison and the first to be illustrated (the plates apparently of his own drawing)," states Ingamells. "Breval particularly addressed the fine arts and he was one of the first Englishmen to take an interest in Renaissance painting." Ingamells p. 123; Pine-Coffin 725. (2)
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